New digital platform to operate a vehicle growth of Aussie agriculture

The $2 million government initiative, which is part of a continuing collaboration between your Department of Agriculture and Australia’s 15 RDCs, aims to operate a vehicle growth, sustainability and resilience across Australia’s agriculture, forestry and fisheries industries.

“This window is open now for all of those other world to see the range of agricultural innovations Australia is wearing offer today and in to the future,” Minister for Agriculture, Drought and Emergency Operations David Littleproud said.

“Investors, researchers and farmers from Australia and all of those other world is now able to easily locate facts and opportunities to further deliver innovation back to the farm and the meals supply-chain.”

GrowAG will showcase exploration, technologies and success testimonies while also delivering ongoing support and value to the Australian farming network.

“Our farmers will be only a few clicks from learning more about the most recent research in how to manage extreme weeds and understand the known affect of the new bushfires in disease, pests and beneficial organisms,” Mr Littleproud said.

“Farmers is now able to see their levy-funded studies from across our 15 Research and Development Companies in a single location using filters to find across different commodities.

“Companies and investors may also see commercial prospects from the study and development found in areas such as automatic harvesting of mangoes and yield prediction of grapevines.”

Drawing on the achievement of evokeAG, which may be the largest agrifood tech function in the Asia Pacific, growAG includes a networking of community associates who are committed to changing the continuing future of Australian agriculture for the better.

“[GrowAg] also provides an possibility to inspire young people and get them back into farming and related companies found in rural and regional places,” Mr Littleproud added.

“That is innovation driving innovation to get industry’s ambitious target of $100 billion in production by 2030.”

The federal government’s intend to grow agriculture to $100 billion by 2030
The growAG initiative is a substantial step towards delivering improved commercialisation, extension and adoption outcomes to the agricultural sector in Australia - a key objective of the government’s National Agricultural Innovation Agenda.

In 2018, the National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) announced its plan to build Australian agriculture right into a $100-billion industry by 2030. The National Agenda is an integral part of the way the authorities is helping the sector achieve this ambition.

The seven priority areas that the Ag2030 will address are water infrastructure, trade and exports, innovation and research, stewardship, strong source chains, human capital and biosecurity.

Fluctuating international markets, raising competition, technological disruption, weather and water-related threats, along with global economic shocks are a number of the major risks and chances that the Australian agriculture sector presently faces.

In a statement this past year, Mr Littleproud explained the 2020/21 budget laid the foundations to get the Ag2030 plan to fruition.

“Government and industry will need to be clear eyed about the duty ahead of us, and do the job harder and smarter and adapt just how we do things.

“I am confident that if government focuses our initiatives on these priority areas, we can create the environment necessary for industry to reach this ambitious objective.”